Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

November 2022

Strengthening Digital Governance with Compliance

Compliance and corporate governance have evolved into key practices that organizations must adopt in their operations. The steady demand for digitalization in business is one of the key drivers for these practices. Now that products and services are brought to digital platforms, organizations are not only expected to innovate and mitigate risks.

8 strategies to ensure communication security

The rise of modern technologies enabled people to communicate more easily than ever before. We communicate in a variety of channels, like chat, voice and video calls, and emails. However, the new, digital ways to communicate also made communication security and data privacy big concerns for all parties involved.

How to Write Comprehensive Board Reports: 5 Tips

While it’s technically true that there are 24 hours a day, depending on how it’s spent, you may question this fact. Especially for board directors who are always on the go and caught between meetings. With a lot already going on their plates, it’s essential for them to be presented with information that is quick and easy to digest. As board directors head on to tackle overwhelming organizational decision-making demands, a well-written board report can be just the weapon they need.

Monday vs Asana: An In-depth Expert Review [2023]

Are you battling between Monday vs. Asana to select one of them as your official project management tool but need more detailed information about each? Read the in-depth analysis of both project management software provided below to gain an eagle's eye perspective.

How to conduct an employee experience survey to source top talent

Like it or not, employee opinions of your company culture are on public display and they matter. If your EX and general workplace culture earn high ratings, that’s great news. But if there are trouble spots showing average ratings (or worse), it will give top talent pause. And this is true even if your job posting is amazing. In fact, some 55% of workers say that negative reviews stop them from applying for a job entirely. They won’t even give you a chance to provide perspective.

Cloud vs. on-premise security: Who wins?

Software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based tools have become critical for companies to stay competitive and agile. Modern Saas tools, like Salesforce, have become crucial for companies to collaborate efficiently. Public cloud providers have made it easy for businesses to use these tools. However, this shift to the cloud has led to some serious cybersecurity challenges. The data security parameters have shifted from traditional, on-premise security to cloud-first.

Guide on Writing Tasks with Quadrants for Better Time Management Matrix

Sometimes you work all day long, managing to do a lot of things, spinning like a squirrel in a wheel, but the result is only fatigue with no satisfaction. It is unclear how all this work heroism has brought you closer to your goal. In time management, it is called the problem of goal-setting, and its consequences can be the most devastating. Life turns into a grueling marathon with rare breaks and incomprehensible results.

12 Different Ways to Empower your Team and Grow your Business

Gone are the days when managers had to be the sole decision-makers, and their employees followed without question. Today, organizations are opting to take a more collaborative approach by empowering their employees to participate in decision-making. Empowering your employees has many benefits, including better collaboration, increased engagement, and high productivity. It also lets you focus on other important tasks to grow your business without micromanaging everything.

Why a purpose-built custom intranet improves employee experience

Does your intranet have everything but the kitchen sink? There’s usually lots of extra baggage weighing down many internal communications (IC) teams and their intranets, complicating processes and making relevant information impossible to find. A purpose-built, custom intranet streamlines these processes by deconstructing exhaustive platforms, leaving behind only what’s essential for employees to flourish. And it all starts with identifying needs.

Inviting People to Collaborate in Basecamp - Basecamp Basics

Basecamp really shows off when it comes to collaboration and working with other people inside a project. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to invite someone into your account and adding them to a project. You'll learn about setting someone up as "On the Project" or "Just Following" and an important tip for inviting someone into a project that's already in progress.

Understanding the Basecamp Home Screen - Basecamp Basics

In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through the Basecamp Home Screen. You'll learn how to add your company logo, pin your most important projects to the top, view projects in a list, and quickly jump between projects with a quick keyboard command.

Setting Up Basecamp Notifications - Basecamp Basics

Sometimes you want to get all the alerts, so you know the minute something happens in an important project. But other times, you just need to shut it all off so that you're not getting interrupted and can do focused work. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to adjust your Basecamp notifications for how you like to work. You'll learn about changing your notification settings from being either "On the Project" or "Just Following". Need to temporarily turn off notifications all together? This video reviews how to do that with What you Work Can Wait and Focus Mode.

Starting a Basecamp Project - Basecamp Basics

One of the best ways to get started in your new Basecamp account is to start a project. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to start a new project and explains invite-only projects vs. all-access projects, the five project tools that are on each project at start-up, and shows how to change, rename and duplicate tools within a project. You'll also learn how to link to an outside tool or service with the Doors feature.

What is a Basecamp Project? - Basecamp Basics

To understand how Basecamp works, you have to understand what a project is. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team explains the four ways that projects can be used – as a headquarters for your entire company, as a hub for an internal team or department, for time-based work, or as a subset of work from a larger project. Videos in the Basecamp Basics Series.

Element in Deloitte's Fast 50!

We’re absolutely ‘Deloitte-d’ to announce that Element was recognised not once, but twice(!) in the 2022 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50! Element was ranked 3rd in Deloitte’s UK Technology Women in Leadership category, and came 22nd amongst the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over the last four years, and whether the company is led by a woman; or at least 50% of the founding team is female.

How to innovate in the modern workplace with the next generation of Miro features

As we more deeply explore new ways of working we are talking with, listening to, and learning from our customers. And what we are learning from everyone we speak with — be it product designers, HR leaders, or consultants — is that you cannot overstate the importance of connection. Without creating clear pathways and deep integrations between teams and tools, we are holding ourselves back from reaching our true potential. So we, like you, are iterating.

One Canvas, Any Content, Anytime | Distributed22

Join Amanda Botha and Swarna Krishnaswamy as they showcase through real-world examples how to get an enriched collaboration experience by bridging multiple sources of content into one hub while ensuring the content always stays up to date. Learn how to bring your team together and break down barriers to knowledge through useful, relevant interactive visual frames of reference for more contextualized faster decision-making.

How to Create a Customer Service Strategy for the Holidays (+Top 5 Tips)

The holiday season can be stressful for customers and businesses. We at Freshdesk understand the impact of this holiday rush, especially on your customer support team. That’s why we have put together some of the best holiday customer service strategies to prepare you for the holiday shopping window that lasts until the new year.

What Are The Examples Of Effective Team Dynamics in 2023?

Creating an environment that encourages collaboration is key to a successful company culture, but it’s also important to have a good balance of power on your team. You don’t want one person to feel like they’re being treated unfairly by the rest of the staff—but if everyone feels like they’re equal stakeholders, you’ll find yourself with a cohesive team that works together seamlessly. The best way to achieve this is through dialogue.

Unify Siloed Systems for a Cohesive Employee Experience | Simpplr

Siloed systems are, by nature, isolated from other departments, resulting in mass miscommunication. Some of the issues that arise include: For example, if your marketing team can’t access your sales information, then they’re only getting part of the picture–and this incomplete data leads to lost time and money. And then, that same marketing team may formulate data differently than the sales team, and that’s where errors occur.

Live Chat Agent Software: Definition and the Benefits

Live Chat Agent Software: Quality customer care plays a vital role in an organization’s overall growth and continuity. How you respond and resolve customer issues and concerns determines the long-term success of your business. Investing in quality tools such as live chat agent software is important. The software helps you solve many problems centrally, thus, enabling you to offer satisfaction to your customers.

Zulip 6.0: Threaded open-source team chat

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 6.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed to help people collaborate to solve any challenge. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Fortune 500 companies, leading open-source projects, and thousands of other organizations use Zulip every day.

Why do businesses choose nTask project management apps instead of Asana or SmartSheet?

If you’re looking for an efficient and user-friendly project management app, nTask is your best option. nTask is appreciated and used by businesses for its comprehensive features and its intuitive design. It’s easy to find the information you need, and the app is easy to use – even for beginners. Plus, nTask offers some great features that other project management apps like Asana or SmartSheet don’t, such as dashboards and integrations with other tools.

The 6 best HIPAA-compliant patient communication platforms

Patient communication platforms are management systems that pull every bit of information about patients (including all previous communication) located in multiple channels in a single window. Clinics and other healthcare-related businesses use them to improve patient experience and increase operational efficiency. Today, patients want a different way of communicating with their healthcare providers.

Innovation in the Modern Workplace | Distributed22

After several years of focusing almost solely on survival, business executives are starting to re-prioritize innovation-led growth. Derive inspiration from Varun Parmar, Head of Product & Briana Rogers Head of Product Marketing at Miro, as they not only share Miro’s recent innovations but also showcase how companies are using Miro to innovate within their own industries.

Working Smarter Through Your Tech Stack | Distributed22

There’s no amount of tools that can resolve systemic collaborative inefficiencies like communication siloes, ineffective meetings, or time spent looking for information. Join leaders from Slack, Dropbox, and Miro who are thinking about how to enable all teams across an organization, and how you can best optimize your own collaboration stack to make work easier, more engaging, and innovative.

How Organizations are Using Miro to Create a Better World | Distributed 22

Miro’s infinite whiteboard isn’t just for businesses. Countless nonprofit organizations around the world use Miro to develop and run innovative programs to serve their communities and the planet. In this session, we’ll meet a few of these organizations and see how they keep Miro at the heart of their work as they strive to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today.

How the City of Cologne is leading the way in delivering secure and compliant digital collaboration

Government agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize their IT systems, provide better employee hybrid experiences and deliver affordable digital services to their citizens. In this immersive live session, Rene Jahnke, Solution Architect at the City of Cologne, will share how a 2,000-year-old city is driving digital transformation while ensuring data protection.

The Human Side of the Way We Work | Distributed22

How have our feelings about — and, thus, their engagement with, relationships at, and perceptions of — work shifted in recent years? In our Distributed ‘22 keynote, Paul D’Arcy, Chief Marketing Officer at Miro, unveils insights from our in-depth exploration of the evolving behavior, preferences, and priorities of today’s employees. Followed by an insightful discussion Katherine von Jan - Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce Innovation. Walk away with actionable solutions for fostering humanity in the modern workplace.

7 Miro apps to add to your workflows today

Say goodbye to repetitive tasks, lost files, and tedious work that feels like a waste of time. With these Miro apps, you can save precious time and customize Miro to work just the way you like it. The coolest part? These apps were created with you, the Miro user, in mind—through many ideas inspired by our community wishlist, and built by our trusted developer community.

Intranet Challenges & How to Fix Them | Simpplr

Although an intranet should make your job easier, many intranets become a dumping ground for outdated content––one that employees loathe navigating. Let’s explore intranet challenges and offer some innovative and practical tools that will have your internal communications (IC) team acting like air traffic control and your intranet a hub of activity where all intel is timely, useful and intuitive to navigate.

Card Table: Visualize your team's workflow

Card Table is our take on Kanban. It allows teams to visualize tasks that follow multiple steps, like fixing bugs or designing creatives. Pick a task and put it on a card. Once it's ready for its next phase, simply drag it to the next column. Is something holding you on? Move it to the "On hold" section, so it stays in view while you work on something else. Card Table is available to all Basecamp customers.

Jira Work Management Monthly Minute: October 2022 | Atlassian

Get the latest Jira Work Management updates in our Monthly Minute. In October 2022, we added horizontal navigation, a starred feature, and the ability to move around the list view like a spreadsheet. Check out the sidebar and Smart Link forms too. Jira Work Management makes it easy for business teams to collaborate, align, and deliver work, all in one place.

The 10 best communication tools for enterprise businesses

Running an enterprise is no walk in the park. It could get overwhelming with more workforce, resources, and bigger goals. Streamlining communication and ensuring transparency can help smoothen enterprise businesses' workflow. This is where your choice of enterprise communication tools comes in. Ensuring smooth dialogue in an enterprise might seem like a mammoth task, but it isn’t impossible.

9 Ways to Motivate Your Team and Celebrate Success Together

The accomplishment of an important goal in an organization calls for a big celebration. So is the substantial contribution of a team member towards the bottom line of the firm. However, managers are often too busy to notice such endeavors and gestures of the team members. This can demotivate the team and drag down productivity. Therefore, remember to say thank you and celebrate wins.

What are Time Logs? How Can They Improve a Company's Efficiency?

They say that time is the most important and valuable resource a business has. And if your people don’t know how to utilize it correctly, it will significantly affect productivity and performance. As an entrepreneur, keeping an accurate account of time is extremely important to your business's success. So, do you know how much time your employees spend on their jobs? How well do they make use of the time you give them?

All You Need To Know About Succession Planning

Did you know that only 49% of leaders are sure they can plan for the next leader in a clear and consistent way? Not that I blame them – making succession plans can be a task. That’s why knowledge of succession planning is absolutely necessary. Every forward-looking business owner wants to see their businesses continue to thrive long after their active years. Who doesn’t? They also don’t want their business to collapse due to the sudden exit of a crucial team member.

Why is zero trust a good thing when it comes to cybersecurity?

Today’s cybersecurity environment is complex. As it seems that the world is becoming more open and trusting, organizations are doubling down on security measures. A zero-trust approach is common among security-oriented organizations. Why is zero trust a good thing? We’ve asked an expert: Ian Mortimer, Senior VP of Technology at Pexip. There are countless important conversations, critical decisions, and strategic discussions happening right now over video technology.

Better presentations, diagrams & more: What we launched in October

Last month, we were busy making some not-so-small updates to presentations to make it even easier to present your work right from Miro. We’ve also been focused on making it faster to build diagrams and—drumroll please—allowing you to collapse mind map branches! And that’s just the start! To see all the newest features that will help make your day a little better in Miro, here is our roundup of releases from October.

5 best unified communications software systems

Have you ever wondered about the importance of unified communications software for your organization? After the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more companies are accepting hybrid or remote approaches to working, fueling the need for secure and reliable unified communications software to increase team productivity. How teams interact with each other and communicate with customers has become more complex. This article outlines the best unified communications software for your organization.

How to resolve HR Queries within MS teams

Steps to resolve HR Queries within MS teams:- Enhance your HR experience with Slack or Microsoft Teams chatbot and app workflow automation, from Workativ. For companies using Slack or Microsoft Teams, Workativ enables you to deliver an AI-powered contextual HR chatbot with app workflow automation, to enable 24/7 conversational self-service for your employee HR support. In this video, you can learn about:-

Learn how to save 60% of employee HR support cost with chatbot and app workflow automation.

Learn how end-users can self-resolve IT queries & issues. Automate manual processes to deflect emails away from IT teams Connect IT Chatbot with 70+ apps, 600+ actions, and 1000s of app workflows instantly. No coding. Use AI-led conversational self-service for instant and autonomous support from Slack, MS Teams, etc. What is Workativ? Workativ is a FREE no-code SaaS platform for companies to quickly build, automate, and deploy conversational AI chatbots with app workflow automation out-of-the-box in less than 60 mins. No coding is required.

The Five Best Live Support Software of 2022

When it comes to customer support, there’s no question that live chat software is king. Live support software allows you to communicate with your customers in real-time, which can be a huge help when they have questions or need assistance with a purchase. Plus, it can make them feel valued and appreciated, which is always good. With so many different live chat software options on the market, it can take time to decide which one is right for your business.

The inside story of how Figma made FigJam-and changed how we brainstorm forever

When Figma CEO Dylan Field gave his keynote at Config, the company’s annual design conference in April 2021, he took the opportunity to restate a core value. More than a year after Covid-19 sent millions into physical isolation, Field’s message carried new gravity: “Nothing great is made alone.” During his 22-minute presentation, he revealed that nine-year-old Figma was debuting a new product called FigJam. It felt particularly appropriate for the moment.

Three Types of CRM Software You Should Know

Customer relationship management (CRM) tools make it easy for brands to manage customer interactions and strengthen relationships. These tools help streamline communications and give you insight into your customers' needs. This way, you can develop strategies tailored to your customers’ needs. Besides, you may find many Salesforce Alternatives for CRM out there in the market that are affordable and fit your ecosystem.

The Risks of Cloud Migration and How to Overcome Them

Migrating to the Cloud has been proven to improve productivity, and has enabled even the smallest business to become truly global. And yet, there are still organisations that haven’t gone all-in, relying on legacy hardware and software to get critical work done. The problem is – it won’t be long until in-house server rooms and legacy software are all but dead. Hardware becomes obsolete fast, and maintaining even the simplest server setup is expensive.

Organizational security: How to keep your data safe?

Online business risks are ever-increasing as we move further into the digital age. Cyber threats are becoming increasingly common, so taking proactive steps to reduce attacks is important. One way to do this is by implementing a robust organizational security policy that covers all possible vulnerabilities. Data security is essential for businesses that deal with sensitive information regularly.

Why Simpplr - The Best Employee Intranet Software for Today

Simpplr is the leading AI-powered employee experience platform. Organizations use our products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Wherever people work, Simpplr enables them to flourish. According to Gartner, 9 out of 10 intranets fail. That’s a lot. We’re here to turn that statistic around – which is why Simpplr is backed by research to prevent intranet failure.